The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-04

the various branches are now com pairing notes
with view of forming some sort OF CO operative
effort to harmoniously adjust Questions OF
wages and hours of labor for the coming year.
A company will spend $500, 600 in, Ashland.
n.y., to turn out saws to cut marble and granite;
Dubuque concern has just shipped carload
of harrows to St Petersburg Several Western
car works are about to increase their capacity
because of the unprecedented rush of orders Tor
rolling stock.
An English firm has just sent an order by
cable to a Hartford firm for fifty automatic
screw machines. The largest locomotive boiler
ever built. so it is said weighs nine tons. and
has l,2O2 square feet of heating surface giving
186 horse power. 1t will be used in New York
TO generate steam for dynamos in the New York
postoffce.
The cooperative movement is taking fresh
hold in Italy. and the leaders of the movement
have been encouraged to render all possible as
sistance to the Italian workingmen. The glass
workers started movement and 20 per cent or
the net profits of each concern is set apart for
educational purposes, There are over 300 soci-
cites in all.
Jobbers and manufacturers all agree that the
per capita traffic in merchandise for the current
year will be unprecedentedly large. 1t seems to
be pretty generally understood that the stocks
In second hands are extremely light. This is
true. because dealers have been buying in Q
very moderate way for a year or more. Travel
ing agents have endeavored in vain to induce
retailers throughout the country to stock M
heavily.
s There is flood of literature on architecture
and building matters. There is food of pat
ents, also The literature is in active demand
not only by architects and builders, but by all
the varied interests directly and indirectly con-
nected with building. Most of the new writers
are Americans but nearly all Of them are we'll
travelled, and prove themselves to be faithful
students OF the history Of architecture and
building.
The Cincinnati boot and shoe manufacturers,
like the Philadelphia textile manufacturers have
been busy for several days trying to adjust
wages and other questions with their workmen,
80 that there will be strikes this year. The
disposition is exhibited among employers gener
ally to make terms far ahead, and in some recent
negotiations which have come to light they have
manifested great deal Of liberality as to COM
pensation.
The seven cooperative barrel factories in
Minneapolis are doing a business of ST, 900. 600
per annum. The Olean CO operators in New
York expect soon to be able to put ,20o barrels
Of oil on the market weekly. The Baltimore
furniture manufacturers are after the cooper
| ators there with sharp stick, and propose to
| reduce their workmen in order TO cut their COM
petitors. The shirt-ironers in New York will
start co operative laundry and the tailors will
start a cooperative shop.
The western Pennsylvania coke makers would
advance the price of coke were it not that the
wages would advance also. Three national glass
manufacturers associations will meet at the
Riggs House, Washington: The vialmakers on
| the 18th. the window glass makers en- the 18th
and the Flint glass Association on the l4th. A
1nt-glass factory is to be started in Denver. Col
AS nearly all the f1int-glass used in California
comes from Pittsburg, 1t is likely that this con-
| Germ will absorb some of that trade.
| The workingmen of the United States have for
years been urged to enter the field of politics in
order to better their condition. After they have
done SO and have exhausted that remedy. they
! will be surprised to find how little permanent
! benefit has been derived and how much genuine
| reform they have left undone. The real and
| abiding benefit Of labor agitation and oreaniza-
ton is the reflex action on each individual
brought about by association and the mental
and moral activities which organization sets into
action.
| Labor will be much more generally employed
| during the coming winter than last and wages
| will continue at the summer rate In view
| OF the possibility of an advance in wages next
| spring, and threatened strikes, builders in all
of the large cities preparing to crowd through
| just as much work they possibly can In
order that they may be better able to meet the
spring difficulties when they come. The plumb
| ers will probably want more wages Stone
| masons seem satisfied. The brick Layers in New
York and two or three large Western cities
will ask for either more wages or one hour le.c
| work.
The jewellers have had something like small
| boom during the past FIVE months. The m anu
facturers have been pursuing conservative pol
Icy for year. or two, carrying light stocks and
| VenLurlDR very IILtle OeyOpQ the limit OF actual
orders received. Partly on this account the i'm
portation of European and English jewelry has
increased, and this fact has reacted in turn upon
| the American manufacturers of jeweiry, and
since the demand has improved they have gone
| ahead and are now SURPRISING their foreign com
petltors in many directions wherein they have
heretofore yielded the honor to the other side
The watch factories are turning out larger guam
titles OF goods than they ever have and the quail
ity. or at least the price, of goods is higher, be-
cause better class of goods is wanted.
A good many lukewarm workingmen are COM
planning that they have been dragged into organ
| izations during the past year or two through ex-
| element or overnducement or through the ex-
aggerated anticipation Of benefits considera-
bic percentage of this class has not exactly
dropped out Of the organization, but is staying
away, thus preparing the way fer a permanent
disassociation. The coming together of the old
| trades union organizat tons with their more con-
sentative methods and ideas has led a great
| many outsiders and more less lukewarm in
siders in the Knights TO feel some degree Of
doubt as to the superiority of their methods over
others. Still they are not unfaithful to the prin-
ciples Of their Organization, but seeing q half
million conscientious men standing up for the
principles Of trades -unionism they naturally in
fer that there are virtues in other organizations
besides their own.
| All He Gave.
| Pittsbure Dispatch.
A gentleman. noted for his pomposty and o.
| tentation. was convsrsing with great dignity
| with number OF othere, The question Of help